roof | early evening | thursday | march 18

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Really, it was way too fucking nice to smoke in his room tonight. And honestly, he'd been spending so much time in there, trying to let his bruises heal that he was sick of it. He felt fine, it was warm and he hadn't been up to the roof in awhile. It was the perfect day to do that.

So, after pushing onto the roof, he had a cigarette lit almost immediately before hopping up on the roof's ledge and laying flat on his back, letting the setting sun warm his face. He almost felt relaxed. It'd been a shitty month so far save for a few things but sometimes it was just nice to get some fresh air.

Cigarette smoke notwithstanding.

[nice day is nice! roof is open!]

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There'd already been training and showers after training, but Rose wasn't ready to be inside yet. She headed up to the roof, grinning to see Alex there and wandered over to the ledge.

"I come up for fresh air, and there's always smoke," she teased, rolling her eyes.

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"I was here first," he said, cracking open an eye and glancing over at her. "You could just join me, pollute the air and your lungs all at once."

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"I'll join you, but you pollute your own lungs," Rose said, making a face and pushing herself up to sit on the ledge.

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"When'd you go all straight edge?" he asked, shading his eyes and looking down his body at her. "You've smoked with me before."

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Rose shrugged, turning to sit so she faced him more. "Just got done with training," she said. "Catch me when I haven't just worked my ass off to try to get better, and I'll think about it."

But probably not. There was a lot of serious right now.

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"Training?" Alex asked, tucking an arm under his head and peering at her again. "There a day you don't train, Rose? If you're not training, you're going off to play cavewoman in the mountains."

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"Not on Sunday," she pointed out, making a face at him. "That's just Fight Club." Which was totally different. She shrugged again. "Gotta get better, you know?"

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"Get better?" Alex asked, sounding skeptical. "What happened to all this awesome you throw at me? Did someone steal that? Or was that just a lie?"

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"Hell no," she scoffed. "I'm damn awesome. I'm not afraid to admit I can get more awesome."

Even if it wasn't grammatically correct.

[intraspective]

It was a nice day! And Ino had Staffy.

And about a million things that she was All In Favour of Not Thinking About.

Clearly that meant she had to go flying and, really, the best place to take off was the roof.

... Or she could talk to people who were on the roof. Ino was easy that way. Distractions were shiny.

"Last time I did something like that," Ino commented lightly, "someone told me I was going to fall."

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"I think that's the first time someone's gone for something other than my cigarettes killing me," Alex commented idly, glancing over at the new arrival. "Originality is always welcome."

[intraspective]

"So happy to provide then," she said smartly. And sticking her tongue out at him.

Behave yourself, Ino.

"Besides, I don't care if you smoke. Free world."

Also, Ino found people smoking kinda comforting. Bit like home and Asuma-sensei. Not that she'd admit it.

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"Hey, most people think they're some distant relative of Smokey the goddamn Bear when they see someone smoking," he explained, shrugging. "If they lecture me, I'll turn over a new leaf and become a better man."

Never never ever gonna happen.

"You smoke?"

[intraspective]

"People're fond of making people better than they were 'round here," she said, hopping up on the ledge and balancing idly with Staffy behind her back. "It's a bit much sometimes."

A beat.

"I don't," Ino confessed. "Ain't managed to pick up that habit."

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"You're not gonna jump, are you?" he asked idly. "I don't have my phone on me--" Yes, he did. "-- so it'd be pretty messy if you did. And I'd be said since we just met and all."

[intraspective]

Ino grinned over at him.

"Sad, huh?" She lifted one shoulder in a shrug. "If I went off the roof 'cause it was my own idea I wouldn't get hurt."

She could stick to walls. Or, with Staffy, she could fly.

"It's not that high up anyway," Ino teased. "Totally not messy."

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"Nah, I probably wouldn't give a damn," he said honestly, shrugging. "You make a habit of going off roofs? I thought people just sniffed glue for that kind of high."

[intraspective]

"If I sniffed glue," she noted, "then I wouldn't be able to enjoy my adrenaline highs to the fullest."

Also: ew.

"And, sure, often enough." Ino twirled the intricately carved staff in one hand with ease. "It's easy enough when you can fly. Tell me a drug that can top that."

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"Did you tell 'em to mind their own business?" Rose asked, making a face from where she sat on the ledge.

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Ino laughed.

"I flung myself over the ledge to prove my point that I weren't worried 'bout falling."

It was hard to be worried about falling when you could stick to walls with just a tiny bit of chakra.

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Rose grinned. She didn't look smashed after all so it was definitely allowed to be funny. "That's possibly the best answer I've ever heard to that."

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Not even a tiny bit smashed!

"It worked," she said loftily, grinning back. "Probably made them trust me even less on rooftops since then they knew I was perfectly happy to fling myself off of them on a whim."

"Besides," Ino added, "that sort of nagging totally deserves an answer that rules and totally ends all forms of argument."

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"Why would it matter? The only reason not to throw yourself off a roof is because you'd hurt yourself," Rose replied. "If you're not going to, it's all good."

[intraspective]

"It's a sign of an unstable mind apparently."

She shrugged, sitting down the ledge and letting her feet dangle.

"And kinda traumatic to witness, I guess? But I don't really see the point in carin' 'bout it if the person doing it doesn't have a death wish. Especially here--you never know who can survive a fall like that."

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"Do you have an unstable mind? Cause I'm not seeing it, but I'll take your word for it if you do." Rose shrugged. "And if someone's so freaked out about that here, they really need to look around a little."